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The great divide, by joseph stiglitz times higher education. A country that experienced shared growth after world war ii began to tear apart, so much so that when the great recession hit in late 2007, one could no longer ignore the fissures that had come to define the american economic. In the face of rising inequality in america, joseph e. He was chairman of the council of economic advisers under president clinton, chief economist of the world bank, named by time as one of the 100 most influential individuals in the world. May 05, 2015 stiglitz was awarded the nobel prize for economics in 2001 and was one of the authors of the 1995 report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change, which shared the 2007 nobel peace prize.
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